Hi all, A project I'm working on wants to switch away from CVS to SVN. I'm thinking about recommending darcs to them instead. I can make many convincing arguments for the usefulness of distributed, changset-based VC, but what I don't have a sense of is how stable and reliable darcs is. I'll be in big trouble if things go awry. :)
In particular: 1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of conflicts can cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport that is a year old. Is this still an issue? Is it a common occurrence? In such a situation, is it easy to solve, or difficult? 2. How actively maintained is darcs? Is it losing steam? Are bugs being fixed faster than they're being introduced? The last release was 10 months ago---that could be a good sign or a bad one. 3. I've seen mentions of using Tailor to back up darcs into e.g. CVS. This would certainly help people feel more comfortable, but how reliable is such a setup? Alternatively, if there's another VCS I should be considering (commercial or not), I'd be interested. I really like being able to pick out individual hunks when creating a changeset, and it's not clear to me that the darcs alternatives offer that. Thanks for any pointers! -- William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
